Summary: Chilean
industrialist known in Britain for his prominent support for Gen. Augusto
Pinochet during his house arrest in England for human rights violation from 1998
to 2000 who helped to create, then presided over the Pinochet Foundation, which
billed itself as a charity organization aimed at boosting the military's image
and providing scholarships for the families of service personnel (the foundation
actually became largely a fund-raising group for Pinochet's legal expenses in
England).